Mennonite Weekly Review

March 15 issue

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  New MWC group builds partnerships

  STRASBOURG, France — Mennonite World Conference leaders are engaging work in mission and youth involvement.

  The MWC General Council Mission Commission’s work — launched in Paraguay in July — began to take shape at its meeting at the end of February.

• Prayer for a new leader

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — Ervin Stutzman, executive director of Mennonite Church USA, was installed in a service March 7 at Park View Mennonite Church.

• Franconia Conference to lay off most staff

  Franconia Mennonite Conference of Mennonite Church USA plans to lay off most of its 17 staff members in the coming year.

• MMN and partners responding to Chile earthquake

  NEWTON, Kan. — Expressions of concern began minutes after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile Feb. 27.

• Car crash kills Zambian church leader

  CHOMA, Zambia — Esther Kalambo, a leader among the African Anabaptist Women Theologians, died in a car crash Jan. 21. She was 54.

• EMM workers in Chile join in aiding neighbors after quake

  PUERTO MONTT, Chile — When an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile Feb. 27, Dustin and Sarah Gingrich’s house swayed from side to side.

• Colombians call for prayer and action

  WASHINGTON — Colombia’s Mennonite churches are calling on U.S. congregations to join the cry for justice, peace and healing in Colombia during Days of Prayer and Action for Peace April 18-19.

• All ages create comforters for Haiti

  PIGEON, Mich. — Congregation plus community plus cooperation equals comforters.

• Church forming in southern Chile

  PUERTO MONTT, Chile — Local Christians are forming an official Mennonite church in southern Chile.

• Dance teacher Bethel award winner

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Katrina Toews has been dedicated to dance from a young age — so much so that she made it part of her Bethel College major, though the college does not have a dance program.

• Leader raised his people’s voice

  MTHATHA, South Africa —Thompson Mpongwana Adonis has guided leaders of African-Initiated Churches as well as Mennonite mission workers in South Africa for nearly three decades.

• Author publishes book about grief

  LITITZ, Pa. — After her husband’s death, Janelle Shantz Hertzler began writing poetry for herself.

• MC USA adds to staff, changes roles

  ELKHART, Ind. — February brought staffing changes in Mennonite Church USA’s Executive Leadership.

• Biography 30 years in the making

  GOSHEN, Ind. — Guy F. Hershberger, a Mennonite historian who studied and advocated pacifism, is the subject of a new biography more than 30 years in the making.

• FPU speaker: Grace will fill the gap

  FRESNO, Calif. — Misunderstanding grace makes us guilty, tired and thirsty, according to pastor and author John Ortberg.

• Kansas couple to be coordinators of MCC Low German work in Bolivia

  INMAN, Kan. — Pastor Willmar Harder and Hannah Neufeld are leaving Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church to be coordinators of Mennonite Central Committee’s Low German Program in Bolivia.

• Canadian MBs plan atonement statement

  WINNIPEG, Man. — Responding to constituents’ concerns, a Canadian Mennonite Brethren leadership board plans to write a statement on Christ’s atonement for sin.

March 8 issue

• Skater doesn’t match past Olympic success

  Cindy Klassen did not add to her six Olympic medals for speedskating at the Vancouver Games Feb. 12-28.

• A bridge with Islam

  KURSK, Russia — Whenever he teaches a course on Islam, David W. Shenk imagines his Muslim friend Badru D. Kateregga is in class with him.

• Urban leaders want a global network

  AKRON, Pa. — Person by person, a new network of urban Anabaptist leaders is growing.
  

• Virginia quartet led move into radio

  HARRISONBURG, Va. — In the fall of 1950, four young men from Eastern Mennonite College were embarking on a mission.

• Spanish program reaches Texas

  DALLAS — Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary has concluded its first Spanish-language theological program.
  

• New book offers a fresh voice about men’s spirituality

  When it comes to male spirituality, men seem to have only two choices for models.

• Bethel prof performs for Pulitzer-winning writer

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — It’s not often an actor is offered a role in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play — even more rare to have the author sitting in the audience.

• Lancaster students aid Haitians

  LANCASTER, Pa. — Lancaster Mennonite School students have partnered with Mennonite Central Committee in responding to the needs of Haitians after the devastating earthquake that hit that country.

• Making MCC blankets for Haiti helps students deal with grief

  WINNIPEG, Man. — Each knot is tied with love and compassion as three 12th-grade students from College Louis-Riel put the final touches on blankets that will be shipped by Mennonite Central Committee to Haiti.

• MCC essays look at global debt relief

  WASHINGTON — The Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office awarded Corine Alvarez, a senior at Bethany Christian School in Goshen, Ind., the grand prize in its annual contest for her essay on the international debt crisis.

• Laurelville event promotes Earth care as faith calling

  MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa. —Wendy Chappell-Dick has tried to creatively reduce her children’s consumption habits.

• Good actions: visible signs of invisible grace

  ELKHART, Ind. — Harry Huebner believes we can participate in and give expression to what God intends for the world.

• Ohio writer marks Lancaster tricentennial

  BRYAN, Ohio — Learning about her family’s history inspired an Ohio woman to write a book celebrating the 300th anniversary of the first European settlement in what became Lancaster County, Pa.

• Southeast heritage group honors, hears historians

  SARASOTA, Fla. — Nearly 300 people gathered for the sixth annual banquet of the Anabaptist Heritage Association Feb. 5 honoring Martin Lehman.
  

• Bethel alumna presents art on campus

  NORTH NEWTON, Kan. — Bethel College is featuring an alumna’s art in the Fine Arts Center Gallery through April 2.

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